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Journalist with Capital Letter and occasional filmmaker. Pākehā. 🌈 May post about penguins, music, public transport and politics. Wellington, NZ.
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At least two parliamentarians, multiple place names and a lot of capital: my research uncovers significant NZ connections with Caribbean slavery. buttondown.com/unsettling/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Weird déjà vu moment reading through a new bill today, only to realise I’d read part of it in a different bill six months ago. No explanation given. Minister’s office says “it’s complicated”.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The Govt - esp ACT - talks a big game about people being independent but now seems to be wanting 18 and 19-year-olds on Jobseeker to rely on their parents again under this “parental test” scheme aka kicking kids off the benefit.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Guess Winston got his way, huh?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Bro, your entire party came out to support a protest TWICE now. Get the vibes.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Huge crowd at Parliament fighting for pay equity. I’m guessing a couple of thousand people at least.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

When even the Herald comes out with this, you know you’re losing the comms game.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

“a woman’s devices could be seized to help establish a woman’s knowledge & intention in relation to the pregnancy. That could include checking a woman’s internet searches, messages to friends & family & health apps such as menstrual cycle/fertility trackers” This is the UK, not the US:

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

I like this analogy.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I love legal nonsense sometimes.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know:

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Good stuff from RNZ The House: Parliamentary privileges - Race as an aggravating factor? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

If Andrew Little wants to dictate what does and doesn’t happen in wellington I suggest Andrew Little first becomes mayor.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Pssst… Brooke… you don’t hold *regular* meetings with the CTU. It’s why they’ve been bothering you about meeting for 18 months.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

We absolutely can and should talk about gendered abuse, but it’s disingenuous to go off about the female columnists in national newspaper who actually put their names to their opinions rather than acknowledging most abuse comes from men behind anonymous accounts.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Remember during Covid when all those “unskilled” jobs were actually the ones deemed essential. While many with “important” jobs sat around baking bread. Many of those essential roles are the ones being impacted by pay equity shafting. Praised then, scoffed at now. Shame on this Government.

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments